Arguments and Fallacies

What is the most efficient definition of a fallacy?

• A traditional story that explains a natural or social phenomenon by involving supernatural events.

• A widely held but false argument or idea

• A flawed, deceptive, or false argument that can be proven wrong with reasoning.

• The state of being untrue.

Write the name of the following fallacy:

"Someone wearing those clothes wouldn't know about organisation and order"

Name this fallacy:

"Speaker: One of my favourite researchers, who is a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Harvard, says that climate change is not real and difficult to predict, so climate change should be a fraud.

• appeal to authority

• circular argument

• hasty generalisation

• red herring

Name the fallacy:

"Speaker A: We should stop eating meat, as raising cows for consumption costs too much water to our planet.

Speaker B: So you want everybody to go vegan?"

• hasty generalistation

• circular argument

• straw man

• red herring

“Me produce cierta violencia el lenguaje inclusivo, hablar de lo, la y les. La inclusión no está en la boca, sino que en la cancha” (José Maza, 2023 fuente: biobiochile.cl).

• slippery slope

• False dilemma

• straw man

• ad hominem

If women were paid the same as men, they'd start working more outside the home, and thus, the birth rate would decrease, affecting sibling relationships and family support for the elderly.

• slippery slope

• circular argument

• false dilemma

• ad hominem

"Look at my Instagram friends; they are all parents already, whereas I'm still buying Black Pink photocards! Why do the young want to become parents so soon and so badly?"

• circular argument

• ad hominem

• false dilemma

• hasty generalisation

"He's not a good person because he does really bad things"

• circular argument

• red herring

• false dilemma

• hasty generalisation

"Speaker A: How do you plan to pass the course if you only have 40% of attendance?

Speaker B: I'll pass because I have fantastic grades and I'm helping with the school cafeteria project. The new roof is to die for!"

• appeal to authority

• red herring

• false dilemma

• hasty generalisation

• The phrase "Nobody's perfect" is a

• appeal to authority

• red herring

• false dilemma

• platitud